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More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"IT'S A GO," read the jubilant headline in the Huron Daily Huronite on 21 February 1889, one day after Congress passed the Omnibus Bill admitting four new states into the Union South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington.¹ The following day, despite speculation that he might veto the legislation, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law, setting into motion a process that formally conferred statehood on South Dakota on 2 November 1889. For almost a decade momentum had been building in southern Dakota for this day, and people's frustrations with Congressional inaction had grown apace.²

Index To Vol.10 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Mary Tanner saw homesteading as "a togetherness" learned from neighbors. ¹ In 1915 she and thirty-two families shared that togetherness at Round Butte, Dawson County, Montana, clustered around a school and post office that bore the same name. Neighbors got together and threshed grain, raised barns, or brought in crops for neighbors "laid up" by accident or illness. That same cooperative effort extended to the formation of the Round Butte school and post office, to community social organizations, and ultimately to the creation of a new county, Garfield, in 1919.

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although I am now sixty-eight years old, I have thought of myself during the past half century since my eighteenth birthday as a young man. Perhaps that is partly because I have been blessed with good health and personal vigor, but it may also be because I was born and reared in a young State. South Dakota was only thirtytwo years old when I first came on the scene at Avon in 1922. My father, a pioneer Dakota clergyman, whom I always thought of as an old man, was born in 1868--twenty-one years before South Dakota achieved statehood. He knew …

Owen Wister : Wyoming's Influential Realist And Craftsman, Leslie T. Whipp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 8 July 1885, while on his first visit to Wyoming, Owen Wister wrote in his journal, "This existence is heavenly in its monotony and sweetness. Wish I were going to do it every summer. I'm beginning to be able to feel I'm something of an animal and not a stinking brain alone. "¹ Wister was being very candid and very appreciative in this statement of just how much Wyoming had done for him, but Wyoming was to be more fortunate and significant for him than he knew. Wyoming's affirmation of the animal in Owen Wister proved to have …

"Proving Up And Moving Up": Jewish Homesteading Activity In North Dakota, 1900-1920, Janet E. Schulte

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the spring of 1908, Morris Zemsky, a Russian- Jewish immigrant homesteading in Ashley, North Dakota, sent a letter to the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in New York. Joseph Kaminer, Secretary of the Ashley Farmer's Bureau, wrote the note for Zemsky, who spoke only Yiddish. The letter requested advice on the condition of Zemsky's parents "who are now in New York and are actually starving to death. As they are several in the family and no one of them can find work."¹ Zemsky requested the IRO to send his parents to his North …

Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Prior to this work did we have a well-balanced portrayal of the Tejano (Mexican American) who resided in the South, Central, and West Texas counties during the last half of the nineteenth century? Evidently not.

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond The Boederlands: The Case Of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19, Michael M. Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, a variety of factors-overpopulation, endemic poverty, inflation, stagnant wages, peonage, and, especially, the Mexican Revolution of 191O-drove hundreds of thousands of Mexicans from their homeland and into the United States. Although most of these migrants settled in the contiguous southwestern American states, tens of thousands proceeded north into the Great Plains and the Midwest, establishing dozens of colonias (settlements) in railroad centers, mining camps, industrial districts, and agricultural encampments. From 1900 until the Great Depression, the creation of these cultural islands of Mexican immigrants in such places as Oklahoma City, Kansas …

Conditioning Of Sandhill Cranes During Fall Migration, Gary L. Krapu, Douglas H. Johnson

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Body mass of adult female and male sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) increased an average of 17 and 20%, respectively, from early September to late October on staging areas in central North Dakota and varied by year. Increases in body mass averaged 550 and 681 g among female and male G. c. canadensis, respectively, and 616 and 836 g among female and male G. c. rowani. Adult and juvenile G. c. rowani were lean at arrival, averaging 177 and 83 g of fat, respectively, and fat reserves increased to 677 and 482 g by mid-October. Fat-free dry …

Social Anxiety And The Recall Of Interpersonal Information, Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, John F. Klein

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Sixty subjects classified as high or low in social anxiety participated in a structured heterosocial interaction under conditions of either high or low social-evaluative threat. Following the interaction, subjects were asked to recall detailed information about the interaction partner’s appearance and the content of the conversation. Socially anxious subjects recalled less information and made more errors in recall than nonanxious subjects. Contrary to prediction, social-evaluative threat did not affect recall. Anxious subjects also reported greater self-focused attention during the interaction. High self-focused attention was associated with superior recall for nonanxious subjects but associated with more frequent omission errors for anxious …

Review Of Raising Less Com And More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out, Deborah Fink

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Raising Less Corn and More Hell will be inspiring reading for the political advocates organized around the Save the Family Farm Act; others will find insights on the symbols and themes that lie behind a highly visible rural movement of the 1980s. The bulk of the book, consisting of excerpts of interviews with fortytwo farmers and nonfarmers, mostly from Iowa and bordering states, gives vivid personal stories of the hard times of the 1980s. Pictures of many of the persons, set in the context of their daily work, help us to hear and understand the messages.

Review Of Cow Town Lawyers: Dodge City And Its Attorneys, 1878-1886, Craig Miner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Ironically the feature to which this book serves as a corrective is doubtless a major reason for its publication-the notoriety of the name Dodge City in the popular consciousness. Haywood points out in his last chapter, and adequately demonstrates in his text, that the Front Street reconstruction and the wild and wooly stories of the "Beautiful, Bibulous Babylon of the Frontier" that Easterners hear are not an adequate representation of the town even in its boisterous salad days. He also points out that Dodge was consciously cultivating its wild image as a means of economic development during its cattle town …

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The University of Oklahoma Press, which has published a series of state historical atlases, has now issued a revision of its Kansas atlas, first published in 1972. The authors, historian Homer Socolofsky and geographer Huber Self, have updated their earlier work on the basis of 1984 state and federal government estimates.

Review Of Ernest Haycox, Jon Nelson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It can be posited that each western author has written at least one memorable short story or novel. Ernest Haycox, the subject of this pamphlet in the Boise State University series on western fiction, is best remembered for his short story "Stage to Lordsburg" that John Ford made into the classic film Stagecoach in 1939 with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Since then the story has been refilmed twice, once by Gordon Douglas in 1966 with Bing Crosby and Ann Margaret, and again in 1988 for television with Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash.

Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Increasingly historians who write about leadership in the American Indian resistance movements argue that the typical leader was not the standard war chief. R. David Edmunds in his books on the Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa focuses not on their military acumen but on their unique diplomatic and political skills. Similarly, Joseph B. Herring's biography of Kenekuk, the Kickapoo prophet, reveals a rare blend of leadership skills that Kenekuk employed to unite the Vermillion band, first in Illinois and then in Kansas. Using a variety of stratagems, Kenekuk, sometimes with reason and other times with bluster, fenced with politicians and …

Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This revised edition describes views a tourist might see when circling the Kansas or Kaw River valley from Kansas City on the north, westward to Wamego in Pottawatomie County and from Alma in Wabaunsee County, south of the river, back to Kansas City.

Review Of Hasinai: A Traditional History Of The Caddo Confederacy, Dee Ann Story

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This slender but far ranging volume presents the modem Hasinai Caddo view of their origin and traditional lifeways. It is based primarily on oral traditions and secondarily on published and archival material. The information culled from these sources is woven into a framework of twelve chapters, each of which is introduced by a description of a dance. All but one of the dances make up a night's cycle of ceremonial song and dance that reenact the tribal history.

Review Of For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, Courtney Vaughn-Roberson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, by Stella Gipson Polk, is a touching autobiography that tempts the reader by offering only a glimpse into the author's life. It is a series of vignettes primarily about Stella and the school children who, from 1918 to 1965, she taught and nurtured in several one-room country schools on the West Texas prairie. Thus, the book's organization flows from Stella's own remembrances, includes few pointedly personal insights about the author, and evades self-aggrandizement.

Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is the best written biography I have read in many years. A beautifully crafted book, it is a comprehensive picture and excellent scholarly treatment of a most unpleasant person, a person one can have little sympathy for in today's world. And yet, to the credit of the author, one comes away from this work having a much greater understanding of Alice Fletcher and a more balanced view of the meaning of her work.

Spanish Exploration And The Great Plains In The Age Of Discovery: Myth And Reality, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T his essay attempts to place Spanish exploration on the Great Plains within the context of the temper and feelings prevailing in the first century of the "discovery" of the West. ¹ Because many writers of texts and more specialized works view the past in the light of the present, European expansion in the sixteenth century appears to be more modem than it was. This paper views Spaniards of the early colonial period as more medieval than modem in outlook; it also suggests that mythological geography and mixed spiritual and worldly motives, considered incompatible in our day, were as important …

Education And Contraception Make Strange Bedfellows: Brown, Griswold, Lochner, And The Putative Dilemma Of Liberalism, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Future historians may contend that the Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education and Griswold v. Connecticut represent the apex of liberal legal and political thought. Thirty-five years after Brown, however, the attempt to clarify and implement the jurisprudence of equal protection represented by that case remains incomplete. Programs designed to effectuate the equal protection mandate of Brown through methods such as busing, hiring quotas or goals, preferential treatment, and affirmative action continue to incite controversy. The Supreme Court's recent ruling in City of Richmond v. Croson Co. demonstrates that the justices remain deeply divided regarding the …

Exiting From The Cold War: Problems Of Economics And Politics, Seymour Melman

Clemens Lecture Series

No abstract provided.

Representation, Liberation, And The Queer Press, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

Lesbian and gay people lay special claim to the power of the printed word. It is through the printed word, consumed privately and anonymously, that we often first call ourselves queer. Coming out stories are thick with accounts of self-discovery through reading and exploration in libraries.

The Relationship Between Needs And Interpersonal Problems Of Women In Four Interpersonal Categories, Valarie Elaine Sikes-Nova

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study empirically assessed the relationship between needs structure and interpersonal presentation in women. Proposed indices for selective attention were assessed as to their ability to detect pathology. The relationship between interpersonal presentation and interpersonal problems were also studied. The measures used were The Picture Identification Test (Chambers, 1976), The Interpersonal Adjective Scales-Revised (Wiggins, 1985), The Inventory for Interpersonal Problems (Horowitz, 1986), and The Marlowe-Crowne Social-Desirability Scale (1964).

Subjects were assigned to one of four interpersonal categories (Friendly-Dominant, Friendly-Submissive, Hostile-Dominant, Hostile-Submissive) on the basis of their self-reported IAS-R and one category on the basis of their counselor-reported IAS-R scores. Subjects …

The Virtues Of Redundancy In Legal Thought, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Redundancy has a bad reputation among legal intellectuals. When someone says, for example, that the ninth and tenth amendments are redundant, we can be pretty sure that this person attaches little importance to these constitutional provisions. Listen to one of the definitions of redundant provided by the Oxford English Dictionary: "superabundant, superfluous, excessive."' In this essay, the author proposes that legal theorists pay serious attention to the concept of redundancy used by engineers. He explains how redundancy--in this special sense--is essential to any intellectual enterprise in which we try to reach action-guiding conclusions, including the enterprise of law. The author …

A Decade Of A Maturing Epidemic: An Assessment And Directions For Future Public Policy, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The author's goal in this article, is not merely to propose public health strategies for the future, but also to examine why government has been so slow, so equivocal, in its public health response to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. He argues that there has been a fundamental ambivalence in perceptions of the epidemic. For some, AIDS is perceived as a disease, with sympathy for sufferers. Once AIDS is viewed as a disease, like other catastrophic diseases, it follows that public policy will be based upon science and epidemiology--health education, research and treatment.

For others, AIDS is caused …

Review Of Preservation Microfilming: Planning & Production, Judy L. Johnson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This short, compact, and very readable book presents five of the papers given at the RTSD Preservation Microfilming Institute in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 21-23, 1988. ... Each of the papers is well written and highly readable. The publication provides an excellent introduction to the many aspects involved in preservation microfilming.